2 Years for mgetty! When is 1.2 Expected?
Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Mon, 11 Jan 1999 08:38:44 +0100
Hi,
On Sun, Jan 10, 1999 at 10:13:42PM +0200, Eli Marmor wrote:
> Congratulations!
>
> mgetty is two years old!
Thanks, but actually, mgetty is a lot older:
$ ls -lrt /pub/*/mgetty*
18415 Mar 06 1993 /pub/unix.comm/mgetty01.tpz
22159 Mar 20 1993 /pub/unix.comm/mgetty02.tpz
26648 Mar 22 1993 /pub/unix.comm/mgetty03.tpz
29387 Mar 24 1993 /pub/unix.comm/mgetty04.tpz
31884 Apr 06 1993 /pub/unix.comm/mgetty06.tpz
32593 May 02 1993 /pub/unix.comm/mgetty07.tpz
35022 Jun 08 1993 /pub/unix.comm/mgetty08.tpz
36470 Jun 25 1993 /pub/unix.comm/mgetty09.tpz
37317 Jul 02 1993 /pub/unix.comm/mgetty010.tpz
39083 Jul 06 1993 /pub/unix.comm/mgetty011.tpz
45433 Jul 24 1993 /pub/unix.comm/mgetty012.tpz
46271 Jul 26 1993 /pub/unix.comm/mgetty013.tpz
69902 Oct 05 1993 /pub/unix.comm/mgetty014.tpz
101267 Nov 24 1993 /pub/unix.comm/mgetty016.tar.gz
182004 Feb 06 1994 /pub/unix.comm/mgetty018.tar.gz
226609 Apr 25 1994 /pub/unix.comm/mgetty020.tar.gz
282034 Apr 25 1994 /pub/unix.comm/mgetty020doc.tar.gz
343305 Sep 17 1994 /pub/mgetty-archive/mgetty021doc.tar.gz
324394 Nov 09 1994 /pub/mgetty-archive/mgetty021.tar.gz
326957 Nov 13 1994 /pub/unix.comm/mgetty022.tar.gz
362803 Nov 13 1994 /pub/unix.comm/mgetty022doc.tar.gz
401507 Apr 10 1995 /pub/mgetty-archive/mgetty023.tgz
420339 Apr 20 1995 /pub/mgetty-archive/mgetty023.tar.gz
437718 Oct 03 1995 /pub/mgetty-archive/mgetty097.tar.gz
444017 Oct 03 1995 /pub/unix.comm/mgetty098.tar.gz
676875 Sep 15 1996 /pub/mgetty-archive/mgetty099.tar.gz
678022 Oct 02 1996 /pub/mgetty-archive/mgetty0.99.1.tar.gz
679736 Nov 04 1996 /pub/mgetty-archive/mgetty0.99.2.tar.gz
688864 Nov 07 1996 /pub/mgetty-archive/mgetty0.99.3.tar.gz
689569 Nov 14 1996 /pub/mgetty-archive/mgetty0.99.4.tar.gz
696127 Nov 26 1996 /pub/mgetty-archive/mgetty0.99.5.tar.gz
698987 Dec 04 1996 /pub/mgetty-archive/mgetty0.99.6.tar.gz
702322 Dec 11 1996 /pub/mgetty-archive/mgetty0.99.7.tar.gz
704776 Dec 23 1996 /pub/mgetty-archive/mgetty0.99.8.tar.gz
704374 Jan 02 1997 /pub/mgetty-archive/mgetty0.99.9.tar.gz
601432 Jan 12 1997 /pub/unix.comm/mgetty1.0.0.tar.gz
712121 Jan 20 1997 /pub/mgetty-archive/mgetty1.1.0.tar.gz
717186 Jan 28 1997 /pub/mgetty-archive/mgetty1.1.1.tar.gz
715486 Feb 20 1997 /pub/mgetty-archive/mgetty1.1.2.tar.gz
717425 Apr 02 1997 /pub/mgetty-archive/mgetty1.1.3.tar.gz
717756 Apr 06 1997 /pub/mgetty-archive/mgetty1.1.4.tar.gz
748770 Apr 16 1997 /pub/mgetty-archive/mgetty1.1.5.tar.gz
750816 May 05 1997 /pub/mgetty-archive/mgetty1.1.6.tar.gz
754346 Jun 09 1997 /pub/mgetty-archive/mgetty1.1.7.tar.gz
771152 Jul 27 1997 /pub/mgetty-archive/mgetty1.1.8.tar.gz
851062 Aug 17 1997 /pub/mgetty-archive/mgetty1.1.9.tar.gz
834527 Dec 07 1997 /pub/mgetty-archive/mgetty1.1.10.tar.gz
869534 Dec 16 1997 /pub/mgetty-archive/mgetty1.1.11.tar.gz
874368 Jan 27 1998 /pub/mgetty-archive/mgetty1.1.12.tar.gz
822797 Mar 28 1998 /pub/mgetty-archive/mgetty1.1.13.tar.gz
823514 Apr 02 1998 /pub/mgetty-archive/mgetty1.1.14.tar.gz
874672 Jul 02 1998 /pub/mgetty-archive/mgetty1.1.15.tar.gz
874535 Jul 05 1998 /pub/mgetty-archive/mgetty1.1.16.tar.gz
878115 Aug 07 19:46 /pub/mgetty-archive/mgetty1.1.17.tar.gz
846537 Sep 11 12:48 /pub/mgetty-archive/mgetty1.1.18.tar.gz
861086 Nov 24 21:35 /pub/mgetty-archive/mgetty1.1.19.tar.gz
(impressive growth, isn't it :) )
> Exactly two years ago (January 12 1997), mgetty 1.0 (the current
> stable release) was announced.
>
> Since it is one of the coolest tools of Linux and Open Source world,
> I am curious to know if another stable release (1.2.0?) is expected
> some time...
We should really do so. But there are some minor and major open issues
left, so it might take another few months.
Marc, how do you feel about vgetty?
gert
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